Where did the name Vincent Chase come from? "I thought it would be very unsettling to hug him, and so it just kind of happened," says Piven. Aware that fellow actor Kevin Connolly doesn't like to be touched, Piven added the line in order for Ari and Connolly's character, Eric "E" Murphy, to be forced to hug. Actor Jeremy Piven, who plays Ari Gold, improvised the line on a whim during the shooting of the show's second episode. However, the line was never part of the script and it has no link to Mark Wahlberg or his real entourage. Īri Gold's quote, "let's hug it out, bitch," has become one of the most famous lines in television history, ranking number six on TV Guide's "100 Greatest TV Quotes and Catchphrases" list. On a side note, Ari Emanuel is the brother of former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Many of Ari Gold's clients on the show are actually Ari Emanuel's clients in real life, including Vin Diesel and Larry David. Not only did Doug Ellin mold the Ari Gold character after Ari Emanuel, Ellin himself was eventually represented by Emanuel, and it was Emanuel who insisted that Jeremy Piven play the part. "I had never seen anybody in this business really talk like that. This guy is going to write it, and if it sucks, we'll fire him and someone else will rewrite it,'" recalls Entourage creator Doug Ellin. ".I went into the initial pitch meeting and met Ari Emanuel, who said, 'All right, it's Mark and his life. Ari Emanuel demonstrated these traits at the initial pitch meeting for the TV show. The real Ari shares similar personality traits with Jeremy Piven's character.
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Ari is based on Mark Wahlberg's real-life agent, Ari Emanuel, who began repping Mark in 1999 ( ). Jeremy Piven portrays Vince's agent, Ari Gold, on the Entourage TV show and in the movie.